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Thursday, August 16

A Case Study in the Agile Enterprise - How to take Agile to the Enterprise!

Bob Myers (President of Pillar Technology Group)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Thursday, 08:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Adaptive Performance Management for Agile Enterprises

Jim Highsmith (Cutter Consortium)

Talking Heads · Leadership

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North
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Agile Business Analysis

Thom W. Vincent (Devis)

Discovery Sessions · Customer
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19

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Agile Rails Fest

Paul W Pagel, Micah Martin (8th Light, Inc.), James Suchy (Colleague)

Hands On · Developing
Thursday, 08:30, 9 hours | Meeting Room 16

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Agile Testing Practices: What You Need to Know

Lisa Crispin (ePlan Services Inc.), Janet Gregory (DragonFire Inc.)

Beginners Program · Testing

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A
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Agility and the Inconceivably Large

Ade Miller (Microsoft patterns & practices), Eric Carter (Microsoft Corporation)

Experience Reports · Other

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Are we done yet? Team Velocity Game

Julie Chickering (Valtech), Lisa Shoop (Sabre Holdings)

Beginners Program · Planning

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 18
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Are we missing the point? User-Centered Design for Agile projects

Gabrielle Benefield, Michael Holzer (Co-presenter)

Tutorials · Customer
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10

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CI for the Web 2.0 Guy (or Gal)

Chad Woolley (Pivotal Labs)

Tutorials · Developing

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Coder's Dojo: Acceptance Test-Driven Development in Python

Geoffrey Bache (Jeppesen Systems)

Hands On · Testing
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 15

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Cynefin - Making Sense of Agile

Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg GmbH)

Tutorials · Organizational Change
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Incremental Releases Users & Stakeholders Will Love

Jeff Patton (ThoughtWorks)

Tutorials · Customer, Planning
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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Introducing agile practices (or any new idea) to your team or organization

Linda Rising (Linda Rising LLC), Mary Lynn Manns (University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Tutorials · Innovation

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Introduction to Agile for Traditional PMI Project Managers

Stacia Broderick (AgileEvolution, Inc.)

Beginners Program · Management

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Making movies and software at the speed of thought!

Barg Upender (Intridea Inc.), David Kane

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams
Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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Managing a Large Agile Software Engineering Organization

Paul Beavers (BMC Software)

Experience Reports · Leadership

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Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Planning with Distributed Teams

Hubert Smits (Rally), Tamara Sulaiman (Solutions IQ)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8

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Smells in Agile Software Development

Jutta Eckstein (IT communication)

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams, Planning
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

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Storytelling Skills for Agile Teams

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (Wirfs-Brock Associates), Rachel Davies (Agile Experience Limited)

Tutorials · Individuals & Teams
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East

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The Facts of Work: Living with Power and Politics

Bob Schatz (Agile Infusion, LLC)

Tutorials · Customer

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12
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VT3

Alan Ridlehoover (Valtech)

Sessions · Other
Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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XR10: Scaling Up

James Shore (Titanium I.T. LLC)

Sessions · Other
Thursday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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Using Visual Studio Team System for Agile Development

Ajoy Krishnamoorthy (Microsoft), Stephanie Saad (Microsoft)

Vendor Talks · Process Improvement
Thursday, 09:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Enterprise Agile: The Struggle With Organizational Dysfunction

Michael Granetz (Command Information), Gina McCabe (Command Information)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Thursday, 09:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Creating Change one "Tic Tac" at a Time

Jeffrey Fredrick (Agitar Software), Alistair Cockburn

Discovery Sessions · Leadership
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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large build teams: Help or hindrance?

Julian Simpson (ThoughtWorks UK Ltd), Shane Duan (Guidewire Software Inc.), Rolf Russell (ThoughtWorks)

Experience Reports · Developing

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Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Learning Test-Driven Development

Jeff Langr (Sabre)

Beginners Program · Developing
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A

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Mingle: A New Agile Project Management Application

Chad Wathington, Wang Pengchao

Vendor Talks · Project Management
Thursday, 10:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Performance Testing on an Agile Project

Jamie Dobson

Experience Reports · Testing

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Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Push to Pull: How Lean Concepts Improve a Data Migration

Rand Bradley (Projectway, LLC)

Experience Reports · Developing

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Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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The Enterprise and Scrum

Ken Schwaber

Talking Heads · Leadership
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North

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To Catch a Bug, Think Like a Bug

Bob Evans (Agitar Software)

Tutorials · Developing
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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VT4

Alan Ridlehoover (Valtech)

Sessions · Other
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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XR13: Technical Stories

James Shore (Titanium I.T. LLC)

Sessions · Developing, Testing
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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Assuring Distributed Enterprise Agility with Sapient ResultSpace

Erik M Gottesman (Sapient), Brian Carter (Sapient)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Thursday, 11:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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VersionOne + Subversion + FitNesse = Bliss

Andy Powell (VersionOne)

Vendor Talks · Integration
Thursday, 11:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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A Technical Story

Alex Vandenberg, Vivake Gupta (Lab49)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Agile Ghettos or Thriving Communities? Are Agile Principles Suitable Only for Development Teams, or Can They Guide Executive Practice Too?

Christopher Avery (Partnerwerks Inc.), Michael England (VP, Global Project Office, ITG Software Solutions)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12

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Agile Interaction Design & Usability

Frank Maurer, Robert Biddle (Carleton University), Jeff Patton (Thoughtworks), Helen Sharp (The Open University)

Discovery Sessions · Customer
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great!

Diana Larsen (FutureWorks Consulting, LLC), Esther Derby (Esther Derby Associates, Inc.)

Tutorials · Retrospectives

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Design Sense - Can We Teach Deep Design Skill With Perceptual Examples?

Michael Feathers (Object Mentor), Emmanuel Gaillot (Octo Technology)

Discovery Sessions · Developing
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19

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Designing Collaborative Workspaces

Mike Hill (Mandu Ltd), Rachel Davies (Agile Experience Limited)

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8
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Executable Specifications with Green Pepper

Andre Brissette (Pyxis Technologies), Francois Beauregard (Pyxis Technologies)

Vendor Talks · Customer, Developing

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Thursday, 14:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3
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How We Made Onsite Customer Work - An Extreme Success Story

Jay Packlick (Sabre Airline Solutions), Scott Coburn (Sabre Airline Solutions), Rajeev Bellubbi (Sabre Airline Solutions), Michelle Williams (Sabre Airline Solutions)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Introduction to Scrum

Dan Rawsthorne (Danube Technologies)

Tutorials · Customer, Developing, Individuals & Teams

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10
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Lean Is More - Using Lean Software Development to Guide Agile Transitions

Paul Hodgetts (Agile Logic)

Tutorials · Process Improvement
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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Octopus micro-finance suite: an agile software development applied to our imperfect world

Eric GROISE (OCTO), Nicolas Mangin (OCTO)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Refactoring Databases : Evolutionary Database Design

Scott Ambler (IBM), Pramod Sadalage (Thoughtworks)

Tutorials · Developing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Team Estimation Game

Steve Bockman (Self-employed)

Discovery Sessions · Developing, Planning
Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

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The Business Case For Agility: The Lean-Agile Connection

Alan Shalloway (Net Objectives)

Talking Heads · Process

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Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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The Daily CI: Continuous Integration for Beginners

Julian Simpson (ThoughtWorks UK Ltd), Tom Sulston (Thoughtworks), Sam Newman (ThoughtWorks), Paul Julius (ThoughtWorks)

Hands On · Developing
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 15

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Transitioning to Agile Project Management

Sanjiv Augustine (LitheSpeed)

Beginners Program · Leadership, Management

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Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A
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UAT and Beyond... Getting the Most From Your "Customer Team"

Lisa Crispin (ePlan Services Inc.), Janet Gregory (DragonFire Inc.)

Tutorials · Customer, Testing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4
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VT5

Alan Ridlehoover (Valtech)

Sessions · Other
Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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XR12: Business and Technical People Working Together

Ben Hogan (ThoughtWorks)

Sessions · Customer
Thursday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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XUnit Test Patterns and Smells; Improving Test Code and Testability Through Refactoring

Gerard Meszaros (ClearStream Consulting), Geoff Hardy (ClearStream)

Tutorials · Testing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East
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The Ripple Effect of Agile

Charlie Rudd (SolutionsIQ)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Thursday, 14:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Enabling Enterprise Agility

Brad Murphy (Valtech)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Thursday, 15:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Agile Enterprise Rollout--The Greening of the Software Industry

Jean Tabaka (Rally Software), Ryan Martens (Rally Software)

Tutorials · Enterprise Agile

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise

Michele Sliger (Sliger Consulting Inc.)

Talking Heads · Leadership

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North
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Community Reflections

David Hussman (DevJam)

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams
Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

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Effective product ownership within a multi-component project

Mike Lowery (BBC)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Introduction to User Stories

Alan Shalloway (Net Objectives), Jean McAuliffe (Net Objectives)

Beginners Program · Customer

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A
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Less, Never more; Launching a product with critical features, and no more

Gabrielle Benefield, Scott Gatz (Co-author)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Ript (TM): Innovation and Collective Product Ownership

Ken H. Judy (Oxygen Media), Ilio Krumins-Beens

Experience Reports · Customer

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XR11: Product Ownership

Angela Martin (Martin IT Consulting Limited)

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